We try to be open to all possibilities, without turning them into expectations
Expectations are the greatest impediment to living
In anticipation of tomorrow, we lose today
Seneca
Expectations
Tag: impermanence
Miraculous things
Who cares about wealth and honour?
Even the poorest thing shines.
My miraculous power and spiritual activity:
drawing water and carrying wood.
Layman Pang, 8th Century lay Buddhist
Ocean depths
There is a Tibetan saying: ‘When things are difficult, then let yourself be happy.’ Otherwise, if happiness is relying on others or the environment or your surroundings, it’s not possible. Like an ocean, the waves always go like that but underneath, it always remains calm. So we have that ability as well. On an intellectual level, we may see things as desperate, difficult. But underneath, at the emotional level, you can keep calm.
The Dalai Lama
A sweet thing
People who practice mindfulness find that they don’t have to trust the narrative self –
that its lost its hold over them as the primary reference of truth and reality.
It’s such a sweet thing
To go from having been habitually convinced by this narrative self, to no longer being convinced by it, is a huge shift.
Henry Shukman, Mountain Cloud Zen Center
Sunday Quote: Freedom
Develop a mind that alights nowhere
The Lotus Sutra
Celebrate
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness
and just be happy
Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880 – 1918, French poet and playwright
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